So we had this idea floating around on: Combining the forum on OpenSourceStores with a customized version of freshcode.

As the domain name implies a somewhat modernized shop-style template might make sense. Possibly even completely merging a phpBB and FCc frontpage per iframes?

Anyway, the freshcode implementation is not quite as portable yet. It'll involve a little setup:

In any case a local SQlite database is required. Setup should be simple.

At least PHP 5.4 required. (It wasn't designed with usage as shared hosting cms in mind.)

If the local version should canvas different screenshots, it also requires ImageMagick and wkhtmltoimage ready. Otherwise the screenshots can use absolute URLs to origin.

Instead of requiring local management, the submit+update buttons can just point back to freshcode.club as 'master' system. Which simplifies the sync process.

If the phpBB user database instead should be a reused, then a simple $_SESSION bridge might do. Otherwise phpBB to be customized for OpenID support (but that's likely to cumbersome to patch.)

A little cronjob can facilitate the data exchange, copying over new entries from FCc:/feed/xfer.json?num=100 every e.g. 2-24 hours.

Most of the other cron.daily/* jobs are kind of redundant, apart from tags generation, header and spotlight footer regeneration.

It'll take a little effort still. I'm currently working on a mirroring branch. And maybe the setup should be done in unison (Lothar: maybe you could prepare a SSH account and sharing a TMUX session.)The real question remains however how the combined system should look- combining the two per iframe? Have the FCc frontend take over the index page, and just include a RSS feed of forum activity? Or do you want to customize phpBB templates to include just a sidebar? (Can't provide help with that.)